“Damon Albarn trims down the guest list and focuses his songwriting on the band's most coherent LP to date”
“For the first time in his career, we find Damon Albarn on the back foot. Since he and Blur swooned their way onto the scene in the early ‘90s, Albarn’s discography is remarkably free of absolute missteps. Sure, Blur didn’t cover themselves in glory on the half-arsed 2003 album ‘Think Tank’, and who actually has listened to much-derided side-project The Good, The Bad and The Queen. Gorillaz’ last a”
“Damon Albarn questions everything on Gorillaz's surprisingly personal The Now Now”
“The Now Now, the sixth full-length from Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s cartoon band Gorillaz, is the spiritual cousin of 2010’s The Fall, an album that was created entirely on the road, recorded directly into an iPad. This one is a little more fleshed out than that, with many of the songs conceived and demoed in hotel rooms during last year’s Humanz tour but then properly recorded in London’s St”
“The allure of isolation defines Damon Albarn’s latest project. With only a few guests on the album, he writes simple, mostly upbeat songs with words of exhaustion.”
“The Now Now is a pleasant mood album while it's on—especially in comparison to Humanz—but it's still relatively low-impact.”
